Cartographies of Exile

Karen Elizabeth Bishop is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA. Selected publications include work in the Journal of Modern Literature, the Journal of Transnational American Studies, Translation Review, and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.

• Introduction: The Cartographical Necessity of Exile Karen Elizabeth Bishop Part I: Exilic Textualities 1 A Cartography of the Uncertain: The Maya Textual Exile Nathan C. Henne 2 A Cartography of Exile: Du Bellay’s France, mere des arts Tom Conley 3 Handprints: The Cartographic Vision of Mirta Kupferminc Amy Kaminsky Part II Geographies of Displacement 4 Traverse, Territory and the Ecological Uncanny: James Rennell and the Mapping of the Gangetic Plains Swati Chattopadhyay 5 Shackle, Sycamore, Shibboleth: Material Geographies of the Underground Railroad Tom Nurmi 6 Isabella Stewart Gardner’s "Barbarous Barbaro": Fenway Court as Exilic Map and Liberation Cartography Paul Fisher Part III Lyric Exile 7 Cold War Exile and the Longing for Non-State Refuge: John Ashbery’s American School in Paris Richard Cole 8 Lost Between Past and Future: Mario Benedetti’s Geography of Return Frans Weiser Part IV Escaping the Map 9 Stateless Cartography in Eric Ambler’s Novels: Escape Routes at the Edges of Legality Christian B. Long 10 Art of the Invisible: Drone Warfare, Rendition, and the Black Sites of Justice Georgiana Banita 11 Looking for Loopholes: The Cartography of Escape Emma Cocker Coda: The Cartographic Ethics of Exile Karen Elizabeth Bishop

"Cartographies of Exile is a timely, fascinating, and important new collection that charts the complex interplay between map-making and exile. Ranging across literary and cultural studies, the digital humanities, and the visual arts, Cartographies of Exile offers a strikingly interdisciplinary approach and a breadth of scholarship that will ensure its place as a key point of reference in the emergent geo- or spatial humanities." – Peta Mitchell, The University of Queensland, Australia"This exciting and innovative book opens up a broad interdisciplinary dialogue on the spatial practices of the exilic condition. The various approaches demonstrate how the historic and political burdens on much of cartography still leave room for individual acts of agency. The volume’s meaningful contribution lies in this interface between national-regional-local map-making and individual aesthetic and political gestures of marking terrain. The authors’ lucid examples from literature, art, ecology, and new media challenge cartography to expand and account for the placelessness of exile." – Marcy E. Schwartz, Rutgers University, USA